Parents upset over principal rotation

8:47 AM,
Apr. 17, 2012

Outgoing Diamond Valley Elementary School principal Kelly Mitchell gets a continuous stream of hugs from students expressing their sadness that Mitchell will no longer be at their school as he monitors recess Friday on the school grounds in Diamond Valley.

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ST. GEORGE - The sudden announcement last week that principals at seven area schools would be headed to new assignments before the end of the school year has some parents calling foul, arguing that the changes are unfair to schools and damaging to students.

"The fact that nobody was warned, that we didn't have a choice - it's like you have this person you can think you can depend on and then they're just ripped away from you for no reason," said Caroline Nelson, the parent of a second-grader at Washington Elementary School, where popular principal Burke Staheli has already left for his new job at ...